Earlier today Australia's House of Representatives passed the Assistance and Access Bill, which is also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill. Concerns over the rushed Bill are high - especially as the parliamentary year draws to a close. Today's amendments have done little to clarify specifics around the potential power... [Read More]

Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to be better at communicating about sight and hearing than the other senses, and decades of work based on English and related languages certainly suggests this is true. However, how... [Read More]

From 7 pm to 7:45 pm on Tuesday, publishers saw mysterious yellow 300x250 ads blanket their sites. Paying CPMs north of $20, the yellow square ad elbowed out other buyers with its big spending. Hourly revenue spiked many times over publishers' normal averages. Then it disappeared. Turns out, the yellow ad appeared across the United... Continue reading »... [Read More]

The Cut has now deleted the controversial article on Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, and apologized for the story. Author Mariah Smith published "Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas's Love for Real?" on Wednesday. As soon as the article was published, celebrities and fans started criticizing the article and many even called it "sexist and racist". Priyanka's new family members Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas too criticised the article. Sophie Turner took to Twitter and wrote, "This is wildly inappropriate and totally disgusting. Very disappointed that The Cut would give anyone a platform to spew such bullsh*t." Joe Jonas... [Read More]

The mayor of Youngstown is heading to Columbus on Thursday to speak to the state auditor about a possible $5,000,000 debt that may be owed by the city. This announcement took place at a Youngstow... [Read More]

Indiana students were on their way to a Christmas musical when tragedy struck Wednesday morning. A flatbed truck towing a trailer rear-ended their school bus near the Marshall County town of Argos, leaving... US News Summaries. | Newser... [Read More]

Even after Facebook agreed to restrict access to user data, the social media giant gave certain companies special access to that data, according to a trove of documents released by a British parliamentary... Technology News Summaries. | Newser... [Read More]